Army Will Halt Travel By Japs

Army Will Halt Travel By Japs

Evacuation, voluntary Curfew DeWitt, Lt. Gen. John L. Wartime Civil Contol Administration Kimsey, Herbert D. Japanese American Citizens League Hosokawa, Bill Sakamoto, James Moses Lake

The Army forbade any more voluntary evacuation of Japanese on the West Coast and announced that from now there will be evacuation under Army superivison. Also, the curfew was to be stringently endorced. In the meantime, James Sakamoto remained hopeful that the federal government would allow the Japanese to move to the Columbia Basin to establish a self-sustaining colony of evacuees.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

3/26/1942

INT 5 _ A76

1900.5819